#Mechagon

[kottkrig]

Commission for Circuitsandsorcery

[eluviannaa]

Some rp bits from this week. CHAOS!

Appraising the sinister display, the mechagnome impatiently jammed a thumb into the remote’s unnecessarily large red button.

“HA! let's DO this!”

Its satisfying click widened her eyes, head whipping eagerly to the robots. The jittering machines erupted into motion. Articulated arms unfolded, each end fitted with a circular blade taunting a sharp glint.

The jagged metal sputtered in sequence—first one, then another, then all at once—until it drowned the appreciative cackles. Heavy footfalls advanced, heralding a truly impressive display: deadly double halos of whirling steel.

The small, wicked laughter now rose as a chorus above the chaos. With a grand flourish, one of their company swiped a wrench from his belt, holding it at the side of his mouth.

“And now—the future of ingenuity versus...” He rocked back on his heels allowing tone to carry the performance.

“...THE CURSE OF FLEEE-EESSSH!”

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[azerothtravel]

If I Had A Dollar For Every Time..., Mechagon, June 30, 2019.

[theuser]

Dragonflight Season 1 activities - Time Rifts, Dreamsurges, and Barter Boulders

Patch 10.1.5 brought Time Rifts and 10.1.7 brought Dreamsurges to Dragonflight. I meant to talk about them a little so here we are, a season late. Time Rifts Time Rifts gave us some interesting lore tidbits around what if scenarios without really delving into time travel shenanigans. I thought it was fun addition and recommend seeing each of the different time rifts. These are the timelines…

[findmeinshattrath]

Still irks me that Mekkatorque was made King of the Gnomes.

The only democracy in Warcraft (that I'm aware of off the top of my head) and they go and do that.

[boyslit]

i moved myself from the comfy position to go do some wow fishing.

there is maintenance until 11 😩

[illidan]

person who provided the spare parts but not the energy cell to the charging station i gotta ask. why

[wp100]

ok i think i got the worst part of the stormcrow mount grind out of the way. killed the zek rare quite a few times before getting the key

now it's just a matter of farming mobs for the other keys/runes and i think gathering items to combine into a key/rune. coolio

[nixalegos]

9. Do they empathize with non-sentient things (dolls, plants, books…)?

The starting whines of the engine core sounded like a banshee’s wail. To compare it to a regular vehicle was folly. Regular machines did not know how to hate. This one seemed to RUN on it.

That wail grew deeper in pitch within moments, the various exhausts pouring heat and fel flame as piston limbs and internal turbines spun faster and faster. The hellscrawled workings starting to glow that sickly eldritch green color from the increased friction of metal on metal, or perhaps from its increasing malevolence and its own irrepressible desire to destroy.

Its one mechanical claw would have served as a breaching tool under the best of circumstances, able to simply tear almost any offending barrier down, or perhaps to claw and rake upon inferior constructs in crude melee.

Its cannon arm was a salvaged, repurposed, and retrofitted Legion built anti aircraft artillery. A true Fel-cannon that had been later upgraded beyond what the Iron Horde madmen, or Legion tech-savants had ever intended for their Dark Corsair class mechs. Galvanic Oscillators and Chain Ignitercoils ripped from Mechagon and out of Titan Keeper Constructs had been fused with the original design to supplement and enhance power distribution, heating, and swiftness. A juggernaut that could turn on a copper coin even at top speeds.

It was an ever approaching technological apotheosis of the worst variety. A machine whos appearances herald nightmarish catastrophe. A siege of one. An annihilator. And it was in DIRE need of a tune up. As all its hellish fury was silenced by a thunderously CUR-CLANK and the whole contraption powering down as it started to leak IMPOSSI-FREEZE coolants and various high-temp custom weight oils out of places it didn't need to. Nixalegos sighed as he turned his vehicle of choice off again and brought a grime and oil sweat hand to wipe at his forehead. "Mood." The warlock said outloud and clambered back out to see what part needed to be replaced. Thank you @astarmaux!

[wowtalesofadventurers]

Sci-Fi September: Cyborg

A World of Warcraft cyborg AU for @thepromptfoundry event Sci-Fi September day 19 Cyborg and the second party of a cyborg AU story of mine that I did for Au-gust 2024.

As the cyborg goblins lead Bilkrim out of the room and into a waiting room, the now cyborg Bilkrim was shocked to see his friends Onluun, Alanriana, Lucan, Yalinan, Aiteema, Victoria, Radbert, and Dazel as cyborg like him, along the Horde adventurers Gramakk, Luise, Tese'kot, Melina, Ishah, Emzu, Jing, Moketoveto, and Uzmus. This was like Bilkrim has enter a nightmare where King Mechagon has successful turn everyone on Azeroth into cyborgs to reflect a past before the curse of flesh that create most of the natives of Azeroth.

[hadoriel]

A Stupid Guide To Unlocking Zones On Alts

For stupid people like me, who like to be a weird little completionist

Note: This is for !!ALTS!! and assuming you've already done all this content on at least one character. WoWhead has decent guides on how to unlock zones for the first time, but not much on how to do so on alts and skip as much work as possible

Classic: There are no zones that require unlocks from Classic. There are some that get reused in new phases, but those will be stated in the expansion their new phase got added

TBC: Isle of Quel'danas has the Sunwell raid and Magister's Terrace dungeon. Should be by default unlocked on all characters, you get there via a portal in the middle Shattrath building

WOTLK: There are no zones that require unlocks from WOTLK

Cata: Molten Front has to be manually unlocked on any character you want to do it on, but it's mostly achievements, so I personally don't see the need to do it on alts. You access it via a questline in Hyjal, and a portal to get to the zone is in the southwestern part of Hyjal, near Malorne's shrine. All other Cata zones should be default unlocked on all characters

MOP: Isle of Giants and Timeless Isle both should be unlocked by default on all characters. You can just take a flightpath to both places or fly there manually. Isle of Thunder, however, requires a short questline to get onto the island. This should start at the portal to get there in Townlong, by the Shado-pan Garrison

WOD: Your garrison requires a short questline to set up and a bit of time to build it into anything worthwhile. If you use the hearthstone, it'll teleport you to the empty plot of land where your garrison would be. Just go towards where your dock is eventually built, and start the questline. Tanaan should be by default unlocked on all characters, though I haven't checked if you still need to do the questline to build the base in order to use the portal back and forth from Ashran (I usually just fly around Draenor and hit Tanaan that way)

Legion: When you first use the Dalaran hearthstone, you need to walk a few steps into the city until you get an NPC pop up with your class questline. I've forgotten if you go to your class hall first, then do your weapon, or if it's weapon then class hall. Either way, you need to do the first weapon in order to unlock the rest of the setting up of your class hall. Unlock your WQs at Khadgar in the tower, Suramar phases in once you save Thalyssra (also from Khadgar). Argus teleporter should be unlocked by default on all characters, though the Broken Shore you might need to just talk with Khadgar at Krasus' Landing and skip the instance in order to set up the camp there

BFA: Ugh. Now the messy expansions with not enough skips and way too many unlocks. Make sure you get your Heart of Azeroth from Magni. Nazjatar should be a relatively quick questline from the docks area. Mechagon will appear from disgruntled workers in the main city. Unlocking your WQs should be from I think the docks as well - if not, you need to set up at least one camp in the enemy zones to unlock the mission table and upgrades. I had to go to the zone select map, click one, and then not continue it in order to do anything with the ship. You should probably do the questline for Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Uldum since it gives you the legendary cloak you need in order to do the last boss of Ny'alotha. Unfortunately this is a LONG questline, like at least a few hours worth. There's not really any skips for this which I think is just the worst. I tend to stop once I just get the cloak, but you can keep going in order to unlock the visions. Almost forgot battlefront zones (Darkshore and Arathi) which should be unlocked by default on all characters. I just stepped into the portal and didn't need to do anything else

SL: Oh boy! More content with not enough skips! To unlock your covenant, you have to just choose it in Oribos and do the whole. dang. campaign. All of it. You can skip your renown grind with the vendor next to the Oribos flightmaster, but that's really the only thing somewhat useful. Otherwise you're just funneling anima to whoever's next on the list to do stuff with it and unlocking things little by little while earning the tmog. The Maw you get sent to during your covenant campaign, very early on, but the covenant invasions to the zone seem tied to Korthia's unlock. If you hate Torghast, there's no skips for the tutorials there and it's part of the covenant campaign. You may be alarmed at the Eye of the Jailer and no mounts! These things unlock with Korthia. Korthia seems to unlock via the campaign, too, after the Torghast, Maw, Runecarving tutorials. You still have to do the questline to get the lodestaff and the guy to come to the cave if you want to earn rep there, though. This should start with just looting any treasure or rare. Zereth Mortis unlocks with a skip on dialogue with Bolvar pretty early in the campaign, like around the time you select a covenant

Dragonflight: Since DF is current, all of the unlocks are just via talking to and using dialogue skips in Valdrakken when you hit cap level. I just hop up to the Seat of the Aspects, talk to Alexstrasza, kill the rebels in the city but drop it after that point, skips for Forbidden Reach are also at the top of Seat of the Aspects, after that you can go down to Zaralek with Sabellian and Wrathion but drop it when Loamm is opened, talk to Shandris to get the Emerald Dream quest and use the item she gives you as a skip. You still have to do the part where you go through the portal in Ohn'ahran Plains and then talk on the other side, but can drop after that (The reason for that is that despite the Emerald Dream portal automatically by default open for alts, the weekly quest doesn't count them as allowed to finish until you've done that one step of the questline. It's dumb)

[eluviannaa]

Some RP bits from this week. I love handling both Elu and Ozzie with this scenario, they play so well together.

Ozzie's attention darted back and forth with the conversation, nudging his eyepatch with a toothy grin.

“Aye, a revolution’s an open invitation for business, lassie. Best stockpile an arsenal—might have more guests showin’ up soon.” He gave a wink with his good eye.

Eluvianna smirked at the exchange. “You two have all the subtlety of a missile yourselves.”

Tilting her head toward the gnome, she continued, voice smooth. “But now that we’ve had the pleasure of a proper introduction, perhaps you’d be so kind as to grant us your blessing for passage.”

“Truly, we have no intention of interfering with your own business. If anything, we likely share a common interest—what you may not yet realize it is you have here.”

The performance drew a stifled laugh from Ozzie, who had seen it play out a thousand times before. It didn’t always fully catch, but more often than not, it dangled a curious lure few could resist acknowledging. That, after all, was half the battle—and half the brilliance of the strategy.

The gnome's eyes narrowed in response, though still unclear if in consideration or hostility.

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[azerothtravel]

Oh Hey, What Up?, Mechagon, September 13, 2019.

[diesel292]

Dun Morogh, Durotar, Elwynn Forest, Mulgore, Teldrassil, Tirisfal Glades, Darkshore, Loch Modan, Silverpine Forest, Westfall, North Barrens, South Barrens, Redridge Mountains, Stonetalon Mountains, Ashenvale, Duskwood, Wetlands, Hillsbrad Foothills, Thousand Needles, Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale, Dustwallow Marsh, Badlands, Swamp of Sorrows, Feralas, Hinterlands, Tanaris, Searing Gorge, Azshara, Blasted Lands, Un’Goro Crater, Felwood,  Burning Steppes, Western Plaguelands, Eastern Plaguelands, Winterspring, Deadwind Pass, Moonglade, Silithus, Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest, Nagrand, Blade’s Edge Mountains, Netherstorm, Shadowmoon Valley, Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Zul’Drak, Scholazar Basin, Grizzly Hills, Stormpeaks, Crystalsong Forest, Icecrown, Vashj’ir, Deepholm, Uldum, Twilight Highlands, Mount Hyjal, Tol Barad, Molten Front, Ahn’Qiraj: The Fallen Kingdom, Gilneas, Kazan, Lost Isles, Jade Forest, Valley of the Four Winds, Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Townlong Steppes, Kun-Lai Summit, Krasarang Wilds, Timeless Isle, Dread Wastes, Gorgond, Frostfire Ridge, Tanaan Jungle, Ashran, Zagrand Sea, Nagrand, Talador, Shadowmoon Valley, Spires of Arak, Kul Tiras, Drustvar, Mechagon Island, Stormsong Valley, Tiragarde Sound, Zandalar, Nazmir, Vol’dun, Zuldazar, Nazjatar. (Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Blizzard November 15 1994. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Blizzard December 9 1995. Warcraft III: Blizzard July 3 2002. World of Warcraft, Blizzard November 23 2004)